Gianfranco De Maio, MD

Médecins Sans Frontières Belgium

Born in 1960 in Italy, Gianfranco graduated in Medicine and surgery in 1984 from Italy where he also specialized in Neurology in 1988. After acting as a doctor for 11 years, he joined MSF in 2001 and was assigned to different positions in the field where he worked, among others, as a field doctor, a medical focal point, and a medical coordinator and supervisor for 13 years. Gianfranco has also been part of the MSF headquarters teams as a health advisor and an emergency support focal point. More recently, he joined the Victims of Torture project in Rome in 2015 and will start on his new position of victims of torture referent in the medical department of MSF in February 2017.